NAME
Email::Delete - Delete Messages from Folders
SYNOPSIS
use Email::Delete qw[delete_message];
my $message_id = shift @ARGV;
delete_messages from => $ENV{MAIL},
matching => sub {
my $message = shift;
$message->header('Message-ID') =~ $message_id;
};
DESCRIPTION
This software will delete messages from a given folder if the test
returns true.
delete_message
delete_message from => 'folder_name',
with => 'My::Delete::Package',
matching => sub { return_true_for_delete() };
"from" is a required parameter, a string containing the folder name to
delete from. By default "Email::FolderType" is used to determine what
package to use when deleting a message. To override the default, specify
the "with" parameter. Your package's "delete_message" function will be
called with the same arguments that "delete_message" from Email::Delete
is called with.
"matching" is a required argument. Its value is a code reference. If the
anonymouse subroutine returns a true value, the current message is
deleted. Each message is passed to the "matching" test in turn. The
first and only argument to "matching" is an "Email::Simple" object
representing the message.
If you should ever want to stop processing a mailbox, just call "die"
from your code reference. A proper deleting package will not delete mail
until all the messages have been scanned. So if you throw an exception,
your mail will be preserved and scanning will be aborted.
SEE ALSO
Email::Simple, Email::Folder, Email::LocalDelivery, perl.
AUTHOR
Casey West, .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.